Automobile seat



Sept. 1, 1931. o. T. B OUNDS AUTOMOBILE SEAT Filed July 27, 1929 :2 :2 *a at: [55 1% ZN VEN 70/ a y/ 7, Zou/Ia/.

EV A ORNEY Patented Sept. 1, 1931 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE ORVILLE T. BOUNDS, OF OENTRALIA, ILLINOIS, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-FOURTH TO GEORGE H. SOMERVILLE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AND ONE-HALF T0 MILTON R. HOWARD, OF

CENTRALIA, ILLINOIS AUTOMOBILE SEAT Application filed July 27, 1929. Serial No. 381,523.

This invention relates generally to seats for use 1n vehicles and the like and, more particularly, to a certain new and useful I improvement in seats especially adapted for usc in automobiles.

My invention has for its chief object the provision of a seat having a back so constructed as to be capable of shifting yield ingly relatively to the seat proper and to the automobile to thereby obviate jolting to the back of th occupant under the shocks and jars to whlch the automobile is subjected in use.

My invention has for a further object the provision of a seat of the type and for the purposes stated which may be inexpensively constructed and conveniently installed in the automobile, and which is compact, durable, and satisfactory in use wherever found applicable.

And with the above and other objects in view, my invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is an elevational view of a seat 1 back embodying my invention; and

Figure 2 is an enlarged vertical or longitudinal sectional view thereof.

Referring now more in detail and by reference characters to the drawings, which illustrate a preferred embodiment of my invention, my new seat comprises, as is usual, a seat proper A and a back B, to which latter my invention particularly pertains.

The back B includes a frame 1 constructed preferably of suitable strap or strip steel and preferably of inverted U-shape in elevation, the legs I), b, of the frame being tied together at their free ends by a cross-piece 2.

Extending longitudinally with, and rigidly, as at 3, fixed to, the frame legs b, are cylinders 4, 4, partially housed in which are longitudinally extending rods 5, 5, which at their opposite ends project ext-eriorly of the cylinders 1 and at their lower ends are flattened, as at 6, and apertured, as at 7, as shown, for hinge connection, as at 8, with correspondingly apertured brackets 9-9 their inserted rod-ends 6.

Intermediate its ends, each of the rods 5 is provided with an integral or otherwise permanently fixed collar 10, which provides abutments for the inner ends of opposed springs 11, 12, coiled about the rod 5 and bearing at their respective opposite or outer ends against bushings 13 retained within the cylinder 5 by flanged caps 14, 14, each having an apertured end wall 14d, whereby not only may the caps 14 be readily oppositely slipped over the rod 5 and threaded upon the opposite ends of the cylinder 4,

but the cylinders 4 and their attached back B may also yieldingly shift relatively to the fixed seat-proper A, as shown.

By such construction, theback B is so supported v on and relatively to theseatproper A as to be capable not only of fully folding forwardly upon the seat proper A, but also of yielding longitudinally relatively thereto under jars 0r vibrations to which the automobile may be subjected in" use,

thereby obviating j olting and rubbing of the occupants back, disarranging his or her clothing, and the like, thus increasing the comfort, pleasure, and healthfulness of automobiling.

It will be understood, of-course, that the back B also includes a body 15 of any suit able material, which is disposed over and around the frame 1, as indicated in Figure 2, and which Wholly conceals thecylinders 4. i

The seat is relatively simple in structure, may be inexpensively constructed, and is efficient in the performance of its intended functions.

It is to be understood also that changes in the form, construction, arrangement, and

combination of the several parts of my new a seat may be made and substituted for those herein shown and described Without depart ing from the nature and principle of my invention.

Having thus described my invention. What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A seat comprising, in combination, a seat proper, a back, housings fixed to the back, rods projecting longitudinally through the housings and pivot-ally attached at an end to and foldable over the seat proper, and springs housed within the housings and engaging said rods for permitting yielding movement of the back rel atively to the seat proper.

2. A seat comprising. in combination, a seat proper, a back, cylinders fixed to the back. rods projecting longitlulinally of and through the cylinders and pivotally attached at an end to the seat proper, a eoller fixed on each of the rods intermediate its endsm pair of opposed springs coiled on each of the rods and housed within the cylinders, and apertured end caps slipped over the rods and secured to the cylinders. said springs hearing at one end against the collars and at their other end against the caps, whereby the back is adapted both for yielding and swinging movement relatively to the seat proper.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

ORYILLE T. BOUNDS. 

